Eric Schmitt

Schmitt's win capped a wild GOP primary, which featured 21 candidates vying for the seat of retiring U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt. In the end, Schmitt bested the two ...

“That shows to me, he’s a fighter,” Davis said. From there, Schmitt was elected state treasurer and was appointed attorney general in 2018 by Gov. Mike Parson in the wake of Greitens’ resignation. Schmitt also launched a legal blitz on hot-button issues, turning his focus to critical race theory and curriculum taught in schools, public health orders and President Joe Biden’s administration. “He’s been steady all the way across the board. A crowd of around 100 heard from Hartzler at the Cider House in Garden City — and it was the speech they didn’t want to hear. He’s gonna be out front, kind of like Josh Hawley.” Katie Hinkley from St Louis, who attended Greitens’ election night party, said she will support Schmitt in the general election but will be disappointed if Greitens leaves politics. Schmitt entered politics as an alderman in Glendale, and later served in the state Senate for eight years until term limits ended his tenure in 2016. Schmitt’s victory Tuesday was telegraphed by weeks of polling showing him as the race’s frontrunner. “I like that about him.” “I don’t come from billions. I come from Bridgeton. I’m proud of my working-class roots.

ST. LOUIS — Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt beat back a crowded field of opponents Tuesday night to secure the Republican nomination for Missouri's ...

“That shows to me, he’s a fighter,” Davis said. From there, Schmitt was elected state treasurer and was appointed attorney general in 2018 by Gov. Mike Parson in the wake of Greitens’ resignation. Schmitt also launched a legal blitz on hot-button issues, turning his focus to critical race theory and curriculum taught in schools, public health orders and President Joe Biden’s administration. A crowd of around 100 heard from Hartzler at the Cider House in Garden City — and it was the speech they didn’t want to hear. “He’s been steady all the way across the board. He’s gonna be out front, kind of like Josh Hawley.” Katie Hinkley from St Louis, who attended Greitens’ election night party, said she will support Schmitt in the general election but will be disappointed if Greitens leaves politics. Schmitt entered politics as an alderman in Glendale, and later served in the state Senate for eight years until term limits ended his tenure in 2016. His efforts haven’t always garnered praise. Schmitt’s victory Tuesday was telegraphed by weeks of polling showing him as the race’s frontrunner. “I like that about him.” “I don’t come from billions.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has defeated scandal-scarred former Gov. Eric Greitens and 19 others in the Republican primary ...

Trudy Busch Valentine and Attorney General Eric Schmitt will be facing off on the November ballot, as they both look to grab Missouri's open Senate seat.

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt defeated a former governor and two U.S. Representatives on his way to the Republican nomination for one of Missouri's two ...

U.S Representative Sam Graves (R-MO) cruised to victory in his primary. Schmitt will face Trudy Busch Valentine, an heiress to the Anheuser-Busch brewing dynasty. Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt defeated a former governor and two U.S. Representatives on his way to the Republican nomination for one of Missouri’s two U.S. Senate seats.

Schmitt had more votes than U.S. Rep. Vicky Hartzler and Greitens combined, turning what was expected to be a tight race into a blowout.

The brewery was sold to InBev in 2008. Danforth's PAC has pledged to spend up to $20 million in support of Wood's campaign. Greitens has denied the abuse allegations from his ex-wife that she made in an affidavit in a child custody case. Wood, 52, is a lifelong Republican, former U.S. attorney and most recently a top investigator for the U.S. House committee examining the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. That was dropped when he resigned in June 2018 after the Missouri House began an impeachment investigation. Valentine, 65, is the daughter of August "Gussie" Busch Jr., the longtime chair and CEO of Anheuser-Busch who built the St. Louis-based company into the world's largest beermaker. He was subsequently charged with felony invasion of privacy for allegedly taking a nude photo of the woman and using it to keep her quiet. She cited one instance where he allegedly slapped their then-3-year-old son's face and yanked him by the hair. "God has a plan," Greitens said. In November, Schmitt will be opposed by Anheuser-Busch beer heiress Trudy Busch Valentine, who defeated Marine veteran Lucas Kunce and nine others in the Democratic primary. On Monday, former President Donald Trump expressed support for "ERIC," presumably meaning either Schmitt or Greitens, without picking between them. Sometimes we have to practice patience."

Schmitt had more votes than U.S. Rep. Vicky Hartzler and Greitens combined, turning what was expected to be a tight race into a blowout.

The brewery was sold to InBev in 2008. Danforth's PAC has pledged to spend up to $20 million in support of Wood's campaign. Greitens has denied the abuse allegations from his ex-wife that she made in an affidavit in a child custody case. Wood, 52, is a lifelong Republican, former U.S. attorney and most recently a top investigator for the U.S. House committee examining the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. That was dropped when he resigned in June 2018 after the Missouri House began an impeachment investigation. Valentine, 65, is the daughter of August "Gussie" Busch Jr., the longtime chair and CEO of Anheuser-Busch who built the St. Louis-based company into the world's largest beermaker. She cited one instance where he allegedly slapped their then-3-year-old son's face and yanked him by the hair. Greitens, a former Navy SEAL officer and Rhodes scholar, had been governor for a year when in January 2018 he confirmed a TV report about a 2015 extramarital affair. That charge was dropped months later amid allegations that the chief investigator and local prosecutor mishandled the investigation. "God has a plan," Greitens said. In November, Schmitt will be opposed by Anheuser-Busch beer heiress Trudy Busch Valentine, who defeated Marine veteran Lucas Kunce and nine others in the Democratic primary. On Monday, former President Donald Trump expressed support for "ERIC," presumably meaning either Schmitt or Greitens, without picking between them.

Republican Sen. Roy Blunt's announcement last year that he would not seek a third term set off a frenzy for his job, with nearly three dozen people in the ...

Valentine, 65, is the daughter of August “Gussie” Busch Jr., the longtime chair and CEO of Anheuser-Busch who built the St. Louis-based company into the world’s largest beermaker. Danforth’s PAC has pledged to spend up to $20 million in support of Wood’s campaign. The brewery was sold to InBev in 2008. Wood, 52, is a lifelong Republican, former U.S. attorney and most recently a top investigator for the U.S. House committee examining the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. Greitens has denied the abuse allegations from his ex-wife that she made in an affidavit in a child custody case. That was dropped when he resigned in June 2018 after the Missouri House began an impeachment investigation. She cited one instance where he allegedly slapped their then-3-year-old son’s face and yanked him by the hair. Greitens, a former Navy SEAL officer and Rhodes scholar, had been governor for a year when in January 2018 he confirmed a TV report about a 2015 extramarital affair. That charge was dropped months later amid allegations that the chief investigator and local prosecutor mishandled the investigation. In November, Schmitt will be opposed by Anheuser-Busch beer heiress Trudy Busch Valentine, who defeated Marine veteran Lucas Kunce and nine others in the Democratic primary. On Monday, former President Donald Trump expressed support for “ERIC,” presumably meaning either Schmitt or Greitens, without picking between them. Sometimes we have to practice patience.”

The state's attorney general defeats Rep. Vicky Hartzler and disgraced former Gov. Eric Greitens.

Even with both Greitens and Hartzler fading in the campaign’s closing days, one major wild card remained: the official imprimatur of Trump himself. “I get up in the morning, I go to work, I sue Joe Biden, I go home” was a regular, effective, and accurate stump-speech line. There are many reasons why a formerly tight race ended up with such a lopsided win for Schmitt, but the most important was how the attorney general successfully managed to position himself as the most viable alternative pick to former Gov. Greitens, who was attempting a Dark-MAGA comeback just four years after resigning from office in the wake of a sordid sex scandal. Many Republicans in the state and around the country feared Greitens’ baggage would risk losing the seat to a Democrat in November. When Greitens’ ex-wife, Sheena, accused him in court of abusing her and their children, it deepened their urgency to crush his campaign early. But the dust had barely begun to settle Tuesday night before the outcome was clear: Schmitt had coasted to victory, with forecasters sticking a fork in the race after only a handful of precincts had reported their results. It was close until it wasn’t. For most of the past year, the top three candidates vying for Missouri’s GOP Senate nomination—state attorney general Eric Schmitt, former Gov. Eric Greitens, and U.S. Rep. Vicky Hartzler—were neck-and-neck-and-neck, all in the 20-point range in the contest’s sporadic public polls, with each candidate showing signs at different times of a possible surge.

Republican leaders got their wish with the defeat of former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens in the U.S. Senate primary.

And given the state of the electorate in Missouri and how substantially right of center it is, if he ends up in the single digits or even the low double digits, Eric Schmitt still wins.” To get on the November ballot as an independent, he needed to submit petitions signed by 10,000 registered voters by Aug. 1. Danforth said in a statement that his Missouri Stands United PAC has already spent $5 million on Wood’s campaign and will spend more, including $700,000 over the next three weeks alone on TV and digital ads. Backed by a political action committee led by retired Republican Sen. John Danforth, Wood reiterated Wednesday that he’s in it to win it. He was most recently a senior investigative counsel for the Jan. 6 committee. Now, they face another complication: A well-funded, right-leaning political newcomer who could splinter some of the Republican and independent vote in November.

Schmitt, having reinvented himself as a hard-line culture warrior, can now revel in his Senate nomination, while Greitens has met what appears to be a ...

One of them, Paul Holzer, eventually came forward in a Missouri radio interview to take credit for making the video, which had become weaponized during the 2016 primary for governor. We’d like to thank you for reading The Times and encourage you to support journalism like this by becoming a subscriber. Breitbart’s glowing write-up of the race noted that he finished “just deciseconds behind the third and fourth place United States finishers,” without adding that he placed 22nd out of 25 competitors. By the end of this campaign, however, Greitens had alienated all of his onetime admirers. Doing so will give you access to the work of over 1,700 journalists whose mission is to cover the world and make sure you have accurate and impartial information on the most important topics of the day. (“To say that ‘Charlie Mike’ glorifies Greitens is like saying God comes off well in the Bible,” one former colleague of Klein’s wrote in a scathing reassessment of Greitens after his resignation.) J.J. Abrams, the filmmaker, called Greitens “one of the great Americans of our time.” Tom Brokaw called him “my hero,” while Joe Klein, the former Time magazine writer, devoted half of an entire book, “Charlie Mike,” to Greitens and his military exploits. He sat for interviews with Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart to promote his books, which now read with an eerie irony in light of his subsequent fall from grace. Guilfoyle, according to two people who heard accounts of her lobbying efforts, sought to persuade Trump that Greitens was truly ahead in the race. Trump trashed polling by the Remington Research Group, a survey firm linked to Jeff Roe of Axiom Strategies, which managed Schmitt’s campaign. The 45th president himself never clarified, a hedge that allowed him to claim victory either way. Was it Greitens, the retired Navy SEAL, humanitarian Rhodes scholar who once openly admired Barack Obama? Or Schmitt, the mainstream Republican who reinvented himself as an anti-mask and anti-vaccine warrior in preparation for this week’s victory?

It's unclear what the likely entrance of independent candidate John Wood, a conservative, may have on the race.